Top 210 Generous Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Generous Quotes from famous people such as Elena Anaya, Marco Rubio, Sam Houston, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Herman Cain, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I think I am incredibly generous with how much I give t

I think I am incredibly generous with how much I give to my projects, but that’s my generosity with the job.
Elena Anaya
People are frustrated. This is the most generous country in the world when it comes to immigration. There are a million people a year who legally immigrate to the United States, and people feel like we’re being taken advantage of. We feel like despite our generosity, we’re being taken advantage of.
Marco Rubio
Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant or generous man to take up arms against a woman.
Sam Houston
No one has to agree with everything that someone else says. But in state-to-state relations, we have to understand that we can help each other much more doing it that way. We have to be more generous.
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
Prime Minister Benjamin Netyanahu made it real clear. They’re willing to be generous on some other concessions but not on the border issue. And I don’t blame him.
Herman Cain
The American people are incredibly generous and even playful when you open yourself up and feed the media beast until it goes away satisfied.
Krystal Ball
People say, ‘You’re still breast-feeding, that’s so generous.’ Generous, no! It gives me boobs and it takes my thighs away! It’s sort of like natural liposuction. I’d carry on breast-feeding for the rest of my life if I could.
Helena Bonham Carter
I’m dangerously generous.
Mika
I always joke that my kids’ favorite holiday is Father’s Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It’s my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.
Wayne Dyer
Beauty, to me, is kind, generous, and people that are humble.
Nikki Sixx
Chefs, as a whole, say yes to any project, fundraiser, or tasting because they have such a generous spirit.
Charlie Trotter
There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It’s like medicine – very healing.
Max Irons
So long as you tell a story that falls within the fairly generous boundaries of the suspense novel, you’re free to make the novel as good as you can. You’re allowed to challenge the reader. You can experiment with voice and style.
Rodman Philbrick
I don’t think I’m generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make my own statement. Do I mind pushing myself forward? Not at all.
Pamela Stephenson
African countries lose billions every year because of tax dodging by big corporations and wealthy individuals. They lose billions more from overly generous tax incentives in a misguided belief that this is the only way to attract foreign investment.
Winnie Byanyima
A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.
Cyrano de Bergerac
In one’s relationship with dogs and with a newsroom, a generous amount of praise and encouragement goes much better than criticism.
Jill Abramson
As most New Yorkers have done, I have given serious and generous thought to the state of my apartment should I get killed during the day.
Sloane Crosley
St Paul, in his second letter to Corinth, spells this out further in the important eighth and ninth chapters, where he urges some of the Christian communities to be generous to others so that they may also have the chance to be generous in return.
Rowan Williams
As creative people, we should be really conscious of being of service in our work, being as generous as we can.
Jami Attenberg
I’ve always found that sci-fi fans are unbelievably generous.
Amanda Tapping
Robin Williams was a wonderful, kind, and generous man. One important thing I remember about his personality is that he was unassuming – he never acted as if he was powerful or famous.
Patch Adams
Men are likely to be quite generous, especially financially.
Warren Farrell
Please let me assure you, however, that the keen disappointment and regret which I feel in this regard serve only to enhance my profound appreciation of the great honor which you have done me; and my sincere gratitude for your generous action.
Cordell Hull
He was a very generous soul and was exceptionally dedicated to the medium of photography.
John Sexton
I am very grateful for the bipartisan support from Congress and their confidence in my leadership of BARDA as reflected in the generous appropriation to BARDA in the CARES 3 Act.
Rick Bright
I’m good friends with Robbie Williams because we both grew up in Stoke and our dads went to the same pubs. His dad, Pete, is like my second dad, I can talk to him about anything and I see him most weeks. And Rob is brilliant, a really generous, lovely bloke.
Phil Taylor
Connecticut would not be Connecticut if we cut $3.5 billion out of the budget. We are a strong, generous, hopeful people. We’d be taking $800 million out of education. You can’t do that in this state.
Dannel Malloy
I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven.
Barbra Streisand
Orlando is such a kind person. He’s so generous and one of us, ‘us’ meaning a theater person. What a lot of people don’t know about him is that, before ‘Lord of the Rings,’ he went to theater school like a lot of us. He is just really sweet and hard working.
Condola Rashad
Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make

Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In the final analysis there is no other solution to man’s progress but the day’s honest work, the day’s honest decision, the day’s generous utterances, and the day’s good deed.
Clare Boothe Luce
The energy of the Kennedy years was completely compelling… I had a sense of a generous society eager to change the world. Idealism was very contagious. So that’s why I went to America. I didn’t intend to stay.
Howard Stringer
Pablo Picasso was generous. But he always signed and dedicated his gifts even when he knew that people would sell them because they needed the money.
Claude Picasso
Everything serious in the world is well approached by humour. It’s a powerful and often quite subversive tool. I suppose there is an argument that could be made against me for being frivolous, but I do think a laugh is a very generous thing to give.
Beeban Kidron
I’m not a new-agey person, but narrative is ancient and wise and generous.
Jim Crace
Narrative has been part of human consciousness for a long time. And if it has played a part in all those thousands of years, it will know a trick or two. It will be wise. It will be mischievous. It will be helpful. It will be generous.
Jim Crace
Black America surely faces an existential crisis, but not the one imagined in the condescending news media – of somehow getting non-black America to be more just and generous. The truth is, we’ve already been through that, and there is nothing left to do. We’re out of ‘affirmative actions’ of all kinds.
James Howard Kunstler
Despite the generous rewards that state juries dole out, in many cases, victims receive less than 50 cents on the dollar in settlements with the lawyers taking the rest. This is not justice.
Pat Roberts
I like to give my kids the life I didn’t have – they go to an excellent school; they have nice clothes, money for shopping. I’m quite generous with them, but they have fantastic manners – they’re not spoilt.
Joe Calzaghe
The British people have a global outlook, they are generous, and when they see suffering and injustice they are motivated to act.
Penny Mordaunt
I am now faced with mortality. Definitely not the most generous move.
Lance Loud
I love the industry I’m in, and it’s been really generous to me.
Sophie Okonedo
In life and in politics, it’s helpful to try to perceive the other person through the most generous lens.
Megyn Kelly
At age 12, I was put on tranquilizers when I should have gotten help. There was nothing major and awful, I just didn’t feel my family was supportive and emotionally generous.
Paula Danziger
When economic conditions are difficult, people tend to be less generous and protect themselves; the question of solidarity doesn’t mean much to them at that time.
Kofi Annan
To build a character like Henry Warnimont required a few weeks and months of work. It turned out he was basically a very kind and generous man, which he covered up with his surface gruffness and surface bluster. And the kind of hopeless quality, that ‘everything goes wrong’ kind of thing.
George Gaynes
I really have the good fortune that the actors who work with me on ‘The Leftovers’ are thoughtful, hard working, open people and generous people.
Carrie Coon
It may be vain to care too much how you look, but it is impolite to care too little. You do a generous thing for the world when you present yourself properly.
Victoria Coren Mitchell
He’s the most incredible man. He’s so generous and kind, and he helps so many people, and, um, he makes me laugh like I’ve never laughed, and he’s a great friend.
Katie Holmes
I have some tremendous, tremendously loving, generous friends all over the world.
Michael Keaton
For generations, Americans who aren’t rich have been generous and admiring of their wealthy compatriots – want a country where people who work hard can succeed, where the same rules apply to everyone. They expect to have their own shot at getting rich. But increasingly, they are seeing that the game is rigged.
Dee Dee Myers
When enacted, health care reform provides generous tax credits to help people afford their health insurance premiums.
Ted Deutch
The more generous the benefit, the easier you make it to stay on unemployment insurance, and the less incentive there is for people to actually go out and do what it takes to get a job.
John Ensign
I definitely am aggressive – I’m not saying I’m not – but at the same time, I’m sweet and I’m genuine and I’m generous and I’m respectful.
Michael Sorrentino